Larry Page, Sergey Brin defend stock split in annual Founders’ Letter, say no ‘big acquisition planned’
As mentioned in the company's Q1 earnings statement today, Google is working on a new stock structure that will effectively amount to a 2-for-1 split: existing shareholders will receive one share of a new non-voting class for each...
Sources: AT&T’s Lumia 900 ad budget is lower than $150m
The Verge has learned from sources familiar with the matter that AT&T's actual marketing budget for the Lumia 900 — a flagship device for Nokia, Microsoft, and AT&T alike — is nowhere near the "as much as $150 ...
AT&T’s 3G MicroCell ‘full of fail’ thanks to wide open root access, claims fail0verflow
Most AT&T customers don't have to worry about the 3G MicroCell — it's a femtocell, a device designed specifically to create a small cloud of 3G cellular coverage using your wired internet connection, which means you only...
Tearing down the Space Shuttles: a gallery
There's little question that NASA's three-decade Space Shuttle program was one of mankind's greatest engineering achievements, and it turns out that properly ending it is a significant engineering challenge in its own right. The A...
Good Deal: Amazon Kindle Fire refurb for $139
As tablets go, the popular Kindle Fire is everything the iPad is not: small, built on Android, steeped in the Amazon ecosystem... and perhaps most of all, cheap. It's getting a little cheaper still today on news that recertified r...
HTC Titan II at AT&T on April 8th for $199.99: LTE, 16 megapixels
Alongside the Lumia 900, AT&T will be bringing the HTC Titan II to its shelves on April 8th, giving the carrier its first two LTE-enabled Windows Phones on the same day. Though the Lumia 900 has gotten the lion's share of the ......
FCC responds to AT&T’s harsh language over T-Mobile layoffs: ‘merger would have resulted in significant job losses’
When AT&T's Jim Cicconi took the FCC to task for its recommendation against the T-Mobile acquisition, the FCC swiftly responded — on Twitter, no less. Cicconi was back at it earlier today, pointing to T-Mobile's announce...
FCC proposals would let Dish build a 4G network, make 700MHz more useful
Two important proposals came out of an FCC meeting this morning, both of which have the potential for sweeping effects on broadband wireless in the US in the coming years. First off, Dish's intention to start using 2GHz satellite ...
Apple to announce plans for $100b cash balance tomorrow
Perhaps the biggest question mark in Apple's current business strategy is the game plan for its unprecedented cash balance — a pile of money roughly $100 billion deep. Some investors have called for a big dividend payout, ot...
Aereo countersues ABC, NBC, CBS, and other networks seeking judgment that it doesn’t infringe copyrights
Aereo, which seeks to provide streaming versions of over-the-air broadcast networks to paying subscribers on iPads and other devices, hasn't even launched yet — but it's already entrenching for what could be a protracted leg...
China may wait 2-3 years to license 4G TD-LTE networks
TD-LTE — the variant of LTE being pushed primarily by China Mobile and Clearwire — may not be licensed for commercial use for another two to three years in China, according to a local media interview with the head of t...
iTether for iOS is back with HTML5 version, no App Store needed
Apple pulled iPhone tethering app iTether mere hours after its release in the iOS App Store late last year — the app existed for the sole purpose of bypassing the iPhone's internal hotspot capability, so Cupertino's move cam...
